Rolf wrote: > I don't know why Miguel is trying to force people to > use only one of the three possible ways to provide > the path (directory-relative, > DocumentRoot-relative, absolute).
I believe that I allow you to use 2 of the 3 ... not one of the 3. I am being paternalistic. I am trying to put up a safety railing and keep people within bounds. > There are advantages and disadvantages > with all three ways. It depends on each individual > case which solution is the most adequate one. It goes against 'best practices'. In the general case, I can think of no advantage or justification for ever having an absolute URL. > I think that he views this too much from the perspective > of an applet developer. I think I do it because I am trying to reduce support questions. > The directory-relative variant he wants to force is > often not very suitable for interface developers, > because it restricts the location of the pages to > the same directory level. The devolepment area is for > example often in a totally different part of the WWW > server directory tree as the pages provided for users. > Therefore the movement from the development area to the > productive area would always require editing the page > (or changing the CGI script configuration) with > directory-relative path specifications. Correct. Doc-root-relative can also be used. > I like the idea of an additional switch that would avoid > having to modify 'Jmol.js' each time it is updated, if > Miguel still thinks he should direct the user to the > directory-relative path specification. Q: Why does anyone need a server-absolute address. Miguel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Jmol-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jmol-users
